Re: [exim] really old mail hanging around

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Author: Odhiambo G. Washington
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] really old mail hanging around
* Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad+exim@???> [20050126 10:26]: wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have some really old mail hanging around in the queue. It is spam
> that was addressed to a "system" user that does not have a real login
> directory... In the passwd file it is shown as /nonexistent
>
> The message log for one of these (148 day old) messages shows
>
> 2004-08-31 08:40:49 mailman@??? R=userforward defer (-1): failed
> to stat /nonexistent/. (No such file or directory)


Hi Chad,

This is mail addressed to your MAILMAN_USER. You run mailman, yes?

In my setup, MM_HOME = /usr/local/mailman. In yours it's
/nonexistent. I don't believe this is right, if you really followed
the instructions on configuring Exim with Mailman.

Here is the HOWTO: http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html


Once you follow that and fix the home for MM_UID, your problem will
have been solved.

About your other questions, I may not be able to answer them for now,
using guesswork, but maybe others here will.


        cheers
       - wash 
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